“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity”
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“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity”
“Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves”
“Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another”
“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century”
“Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.”
“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.”
“The truest end of life, is to know the life that never ends”
“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be”
“First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others”
“That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit”
“Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides”
“Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge”
“You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs”
“Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults”
“You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony”
“You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float”
“Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock”
“How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital”
“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create”
“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough”